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Friday, November 20, 2015

How Hitler-era brown shirts took over Hunter College - Phyllis Chesler

by Phyllis Chesler

The real point of the raucous protests last week was masked by demands
for pay parity and free education so as to get students on their side.
Then came the anti-Semitism. That is just the way Hitler's brown shirts
worked on Germans.

For the first time in the 21st century and on the American campus,
legitimate economic grievances, specific to New York City, specific to
the United States, have been tied to Zionism.

Led by a screaming
woman in hijab and a man, assisted by the usual outside agitators,
students screamed themselves hoarse at Hunter College, a branch of City
University of New York not far from where I live just a few days ago.

“Zionism
out of CUNY!” “Zionists out of CUNY!” “Intifada, Intifada” was chanted,
screamed, roared, over and over again. You may see it here and here.

Their demands for
pay parity for adjunct professors is just and long overdue. Their
demands for “tuition-free education, the cancellation of all student
debt, a minimum wage of $15.00 for campus workers” is, perhaps, more
idealistic as well as economically challenging.

However, their
demands for “an end to racial and economic segregation in education,
racialized college-acceptance practices, work program requirements for
students on public assistance, and an end to the rapid gentrification
and privatization of public school property” verges on the surreal and
smacks of Occupy Wall Street and the Ferguson riots.

The next demand is obscene.

“We
demand CUNY divests from Israel, companies that maintain Zionist
occupation, private prisons, and prison labor…the Zionist administration
invests in Israeli companies, companies that support the Israeli
occupation, hosts birthright programs and study abroad programs in
occupied Palestine, and reproduces settler-colonial ideology throughout
CUNY through Zionist content of education. While CUNY aims to produce
the next generation of professional Zionists, SJP (Student for Justice
in Palestine) aims to change the university to fight for all people’s
liberation.”

What’s Israel got to do with these domestic campus
issues? Absolutely nothing—but in the mind of these Muslim Brotherhood
indoctrinated students it has come to symbolize every conceivable
injustice, both real and imagined; it has come to justify the stabbing,
bombing, and car-ramming of Jewish civilians everywhere, especially but
not exclusively in Israel or, as we saw on Friday in Paris, against
Israelis—and the anti-Israel boycotts undertaken by the EU and by
American academic organizations.I
have long referred to CUNY as the Communist University of New York
because both the faculty and administration lean far left. If there is
indoctrination going on, that indoctrination is anti-Israel and
pro-Palestine; it is certainly not pro-Israel and anti-Palestine. But
these paranoid ravings, this scapegoating of Jews, Zionists, and Israel
for the very crimes being committed by Arab terrorists and their
supporters, which include large chunks of the American professoriate, is
what the new totalitarianism sounds like.

If there is
intimidation, bullying and Blood Libels on campus it is
anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism, not Islamophobia or anti-Arab-a-phobia, and
it is coming from the Muslim-Brotherhood inspired Left; from
Islamic-inspired and Christian liberation theology inspired Jew-hatred
among angry African-Americans; from the anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic
behaviors of the world’s political leaders; and from the silence of our
own professoriate—a silence which amounts to complicity as well as to
cowardice.

This “million student march” throughout all of CUNY was
endorsed by the NYC Students for Justice in Palestine, a creation of
the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization outlawed in Egypt; by
their cells at Hunter College, the College of Staten Island (where I
taught for nearly 30 years), John Jay College (where I taught for a
semester), by the Law School at CUNY, and by St. Joseph’s College and
Pace College.

The Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim
Student Association must be stopped. They are supported by a terrorist
organization and should not be allowed on an American campus. They are
not a “club.” They are Brown-shirts on the move.

Students who have
been taught that is it permissible to shout speakers down, interrupt
and heckle them, force out distinguished academics, compel payment for
outside non-academic rabble rousers, feel empowered by totalitarian
Group Think, conduct angry rallies like this one at Hunter College are
no better than Hitler-era Brown-shirts. They are not behaving like
college students.

They should be emphatically condemned by the administration, and either expelled or de-programmed, whatever works.